Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-logical-props][css-writing-modes] Specify relation of text-orientation with abstract-to-physical mapping from fantasai via GitHub on 2018-08-17 (public-css-archive@w3.org from August 2018)

From: fantasai via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:06:47 +0000
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#logical-directions">CSS Writing Modes Level 3 &sect;6.2. Flow-relative Directions</a>:
> inline-start
> The side from which text of the inline base direction would start. For boxes with a _used_ `direction` value of `ltr`, this means the line-left side. For boxes with a _used_ `direction` value of `rtl`, this means the line-right side. 

<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#text-orientation">CSS Writing Modes Level 3 &sect;5.1. Orienting Text: the text-orientation property</a>:
> upright
> &hellip;  This value causes the _used value_ of `direction` to be `ltr`, and for the purposes of bidi reordering, causes all characters to be treated as strong LTR.

I think we just need to clarify here that the used value is what's used... this still means the mapping depends only on computed `writing-mode`, `direction`, and `text-orientation`: `text-orientation: upright` basically forces used `direction` to `ltr`, that's all.

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